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Lollapalooza: Still A Thing

March 23, 2016 / / 5 Comments

lollapalooza 2016

  • Is Lollapalooza coming back, or has it always been around and I didn’t care?
  • I thought we left Lollapalooza in the 90’s with Daddy Snow and Third Eye Blind.
  • Oh, look: Third Eye Blind is playing.
  • This list is like a foreign supermarket: I understand the concept, but the specifics are beyond me.
  • What the fuck is a Flosstradamus?
  • You know the scene in the novel set at a record store or a festival and the only reason for the setting is so the author can come up with a couple pages full of fake band names?
  • That’s what this looks like.
  • The possibility exists that I am both old and out-of-touch, but we can safely disregard that theory.
  • It’s definitely someone’s else’s fault.
  • Radiohead is the musical equivalent of The Wire for me: something white people whose opinions I respect love that I avoid.
  • Don’t know why.
  • Freedom of speech, maybe.
  • Sheer obstinacy, perhaps.
  • I do follow the crowd on the Chili Peppers, though.
  • They suck.
  • They’re semi-funky KISS: two guys, and some other guys, and one trick.
  • And did the Chili Peppers give Jane’s Addiction their sexy guitarist back?
  • And is it the original Jane’s Addiction?
  • Because I had been led to believe that those gentlemen were in the lawsuits and punching stage of bandhood.
  • I usually post live stuff, but the album version of this is the one you want.
  • Headphones.
  • [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogmqY1-_XFc[/embedyt]
  • We have hit Peak Festival.
  • There is a bubble.
  • If I were you, I would short port-a-potties.
  • I will give this particular festival credit, though: it’s not in a field.
  • Grant Park is in Chicago.
  • It’s as in Chicago as you get: it’s right next to Soldier Field; if you’re looking for one festival to go to this summer, I can tell you this: Grant Park is a lovely place to be on drugs with your friends while music plays too loud.
  • If you want to see two bands you like and a bunch you haven’t heard of surrounded by various teenage rebellion, then this one gets the TotD Stamp of approval: it’s not in a southern field, nor the middle of the desert.
  • Plus: the same bands are at every festival, so the whole choice is about your preference in environment.
  • Acts I Have Opinions On: besides the ones I’ve mentioned, just LCD Soundsystem and Lana Del Ray.
  • My Opinions On Said Acts: they are almost anagrams, and I am reminded vaguely of brunch.
  • A Venn diagram of LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Ray, and brunch would just be one circle.
  • I would also pay good money to take too much acid and listen to One From The Vault through the Despacio PA that James Murphy built.
  • I also have an opinion on Die Antwoord.
  • FUCK YEAH, DIE ANTWOORD.
  • They are scary and look terrible-smelling and I can’t understand a thing they’re talking about.
  • You know the scene where the redneck sheriff tells the lonely drifter to get out of town?
  • If Die Antwoord were the lonely drifter, you would side with the sheriff.
  • Look at this:
  • Right?
  • If that knocked on your door, you would shoot it; the jury would take five minutes to find you not guilty.
  • Acts I Have Heard Of And What I Know About Them: Ellie Goulding is foreign and sings sad songs like a skinny Adele; J. Cole makes the First Lady’s dresses; Future changed the rap game, according to Kanye; Haim are Jewish girls that took a picture with Taylor Swift; neither St. Lucia nor Saint Motel is St. Vincent.
  • Lindsay Stirling is a woman who plays the electric violin while cosplaying; she has also written a memoir detailing her mental health issues and social media problems.
  • It’s almost like she was trying to annoy me.
  • Acts I Have Never Heard Of: the rest of them until you get to the last line.
  • Pepsi’s early stuff was great; Samsung still rocks, I guess.

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